"I Am An Impure Thinker"

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This paper discusses what the fundamental element is in a world in which human beings can come together in community and in effective and healing communication. It argues that in the view of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, as expressed in his book "I Am An Impure Thinker", the fundamental element is God and that the higher design and purpose, which is a gift from God to humanity, is what allows any meaningful communication at all. It looks at how the connection between humanity and God is faith and the right relationship that results between humanity and God in such faith. Without such faith, in a two-way process between God and mankind, every individual would be lost without hope of community or communication.

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"If we see a human being as an "it" in his or her essence, then a society will result in which human beings are things without a special and loving relationship with God. Therefore, without such a sacred relationship, and with only the dualism which resulted from the "reason" of Descartes, the Ego becomes "God-like," which the author says is "non-existent" (7). For the author, either the human being sees himself or God as the essence of the universe. Descartes' rationalism, based on the primacy of human reason alone, inevitably leads to a loss of the faith which is the spiritual glue holding mankind and God together and creating a loving and sound community."

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